Veterans March Network

"A Veteran should never have to investigate those that should serve the Veterans".

Veterans March was founded in 2015 with a Facebook page as the catalyst for investigating and reporting the abuses within the VA.

Thomas HudsonFounder, Veterans March

The founder, Thomas Wayne Hudson, is a veteran who has been the victim of such abuses. Because of the tactics of the VA to ignore and vilify veterans who attempt to report abuse, he utilized his education, training, and work experience to investigate and to bring awareness to the VA abuse. “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” Little did they know that Hudson’s education and professional experience had included law, criminal justice, health administration, finance, business administration, business owner, health care, mortuary science, politician, computer science, transportation logistics,and educator In other words: “They messed with the wrong veteran”

Today, Veterans March has become a Facebook group with membership in the thousands.

Members include doctors, nurses, journalist, government officials, actors, actress, attorneys, authors, TV personalities, news anchor, politicians, hospital administrators, VA employess, and a lot of caring friends who want to make a difference.

The nurse saw that the veteran who is known for helping so many others was in immediated danger of being on the streets in bad weather, no money, no food, no clean clothes, and in danger of physical harm from many threats due to false information dissemenated online. The nurse surprisingly make arraignments for the veteran to stay in a motel for a week. The veteran is The Walking Veteran, Thomas Hudson, Founder of VeteransMarch.org.

The Veterans Health Administration uses a comprehensive performance improvement tool called Strategic Analytics for Improvement and Learning (SAIL) that includes key metrics used by the private sector as well as additional metrics that are important for addressing access to care, quality of mental health care, employee perception about the organization, nursing turnover, efficiency and capacity. The metrics are organized into 9 Quality domains and one Efficiency and Capacity domain. The Quality domains are combined to represent overall Quality. Each VA medical center is assessed for overall Quality from two perspectives: (1) Relative Performance compared to other VA medical centers using a Star rating system from 1 to 5 and (2) Improvement compared to its own performance from the past year. Both relative performance and size of improvement are used to guide improve efforts.